My name is anastasia, from St [*static*] parish, my Church has been around for 2000 years.
I’m attending a pre-mission trip conference, and it’s all so… Protestant.
I’m sorry, I really don’t mean to offend anyone by saying that. And I do not think that being a Protestant is wrong or bad in any way.
It’s just that…
I’ve always felt that the Catholic Church has been the one true Church. Which probably doesn’t come as surprise.
Today, we were singing some P&W songs and there was one about something to do with wanting to seek Jesus’ face. And the first thought that came to my mind was, “I’ve already seen Jesus. I see Him in the Eucharist all the time.”
I don’t really know how to articulate my feelings and thoughts right now.
But I feel like the non-Catholic church is incomplete. Like it isn’t whole.
There is so much to God and, while the Catholic Church probably doesn’t see Him all, the Protestants see even less than the Catholics.
Which also led me to ask. The mission trip I’m going for is a non-denominational thing (no segregation between Catholics and Baptists and Methodists and Lutherans etc) which is good because I’ve always believed that some form of ecumenism is essential albeit disillusional.
The problem on my mind now is that, when I go there, I will be spreading a religion that is not the whole of the religion I truly profess.
Yes, the birth, death, resurrection and second coming of Christ are the most important parts of Christianity and we share that.
Yes, the belief that Jesus was the Son of God is also shared.
But… there is so much more to my Church than just that.
It’s like… yes, you can eat white rice and feel full and not die of hunger (malnutrition maybe but not hunger) but why would you want to give a person only white rice to eat when you also have kiam chai thng, and ju hu char, and steamed fish, and fried egg, and roast chicken, and… I’m sorry, I’m getting a wee carried away.
But you get my point.
Just a little contextualisation for the first sentence so that it won’t look so random. One of the speakers today, a pastor, introduced himself, “My name is so-and-so from bla-bla-church which has been around since 2001.” That first sentence, “My name is anastasia, from St [*static*] parish, my Church has been around for 2000 years.” was the first thought that came to mind.
